CP Violation - A New Era

Abstract

We give a pedagogical review of the theory of CP violation with emphasis on the implications of recent experimental results. The review includes: (i) A detailed description of how CP violation arises in the Standard Model and in its extension that allows for neutrino masses; (ii) The formalism of CP violation in meson decays and its application to various K decays (\epsilon_K, \epsilon^\prime and K\to\pi\nu\nu), D decays (D\to K\pi and D\to KK) and B decays (B\to\ell\nu X, B\to\psi K_S and B\to\pi\pi, including a discussion of the `penguin pollution' problem); (iii) Supersymmetry: the CP problems and the use of CP violation as a probe of the mechanism of dynamical supersymmetry breaking.